President Donald Trump says he now regrets putting all three of his first-term Supreme Court nominees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, on the nation’s highest court.
by Jim Hᴏft
Trump made the stunning admission during a wide-ranging interview with TIME conducted at the White House on September 28 and published Thursday, October 1.
The president was asked directly whether he regretted the nominations after calling the trio “a shell of their original selves” in a recent Truth Social post.
“Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in,” Trump said, according to TIME. “They voted against me too often. I was very—I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.”